Lake Kariba

Lake Kariba is the world's largest artificial lake and reservoir by volume. It lies 1,300 kilometres upstream from the mouth of the Zambezi river on the Indian Ocean, bordering and .
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  • Reservoir
  • …lies at an elevation of 487 metres (1,598 feet)
  • Description: reservoir in Zimbabwe
  • Also known as
    “Kariba Reservoir”
    “Lake Elizabeth”
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Lake Kariba

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Latitude
-16.93727° or 16° 56′ 14″ south
Longitude
27.97531° or 27° 58′ 31″ east
Open location code
5GM93X7G+34
Geo­Names ID
912835
Wiki­data ID
Q1047206

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Lake Kariba” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بحيرة كاريبا”
  • Armenian: “Կարիբա”
  • Basque: “Kariba aintzira”
  • Basque: “Kariba Lakua”
  • Basque: “Kariba”
  • Belarusian: “Карыба”
  • Bengali: “কারিবা হ্রদ”
  • Bhojpuri: “कैरीबा झील”
  • Burmese: “ကရိဘကန်”
  • Catalan: “llac Kariba”
  • Catalan: “Llac Kariba”
  • Chinese: “卡里巴水壩”
  • Chinese: “卡里巴水库”
  • Chinese: “卡里巴水庫”
  • Chinese: “卡里巴水湖”
  • Croatian: “Kariba”
  • Croatian: “Umjetno jezero Kariba”
  • Czech: “Kariba”
  • Dagbani: “Lake Kariba”
  • Danish: “Karibasøen”
  • Dutch: “Karibameer”
  • Dutch: “Karibastuwdam”
  • Esperanto: “Kariba”
  • Estonian: “Kariba järv”
  • Finnish: “Karibajärvi”
  • French: “lac Kariba”
  • French: “Lac Kariba”
  • Georgian: “კარიბა”
  • German: “Karibastausee”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Lake Kariba”
  • Hausa: “Tafkin Kariba”
  • Hebrew: “אגם קאריבה”
  • Hindi: “कैरीबा झील”
  • Hungarian: “Kariba-tó”
  • Indonesian: “Danau Kariba”
  • Irish: “Loch Kariba”
  • Italian: “lago Kariba”
  • Italian: “Lago Kariba”
  • Japanese: “カリバ湖”
  • Kikuyu: “Iria rĩa Kariba”
  • Latvian: “Karibas ezers”
  • Lithuanian: “Karibos ežeras”
  • Lithuanian: “Karibos tvenkinys”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kariba”
  • Norwegian: “Karibasjøen”
  • Persian: “دریاچه کاریبا”
  • Polish: “Kariba”
  • Portuguese: “Lago Cariba”
  • Portuguese: “Lago Kariba”
  • Russian: “Кариба”
  • Russian: “Озеро Кариба”
  • Serbian: “Kariba”
  • Serbian: “Кариба”
  • Slovak: “Karibská vodná nádrž”
  • Slovenian: “Zajezitveno jezero Kariba”
  • Spanish: “Lago Kariba”
  • Swahili: “Ziwa Kariba”
  • Swedish: “Kariba”
  • Swedish: “Karibasjön”
  • Swedish: “Lake Kariba”
  • Tamil: “கரிபா ஏரி”
  • Tswana: “Lekadiba la Kariba”
  • Turkish: “Kariba Gölü”
  • Ukrainian: “Кариба”
  • Ukrainian: “Каріба”
  • Vietnamese: “Hồ Kariba”
  • Welsh: “Llyn Kariba”

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